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Baseball Distance
The stands have virtual sound, virtual hot-dogs, and the game goes on with runners at bat, everyone on the field … BASEBALL DISTANCE the stands are full of ghosts the lingering smell of stale hot dogs and forgotten cheers the … Continue reading
Drop Scones
The fun of baking with Grandmother or her sister, the watching, stirring, smelling, tasting … Such good memories … DROP SCONES (Triolet) the recipe came from Great Aunt Bee who added things while I stirred as a four-year-old at … Continue reading
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Tagged aromas, food, memories, poem, relationships, taste
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Distant songs
I was watching kids on a playground the other day, remembering games I played in the long ago, such fun it was, even the remembering. I don’t think the games or pranks have changed much … DISTANT SONGS the game … Continue reading
Posted in children, children's games, poem
Tagged children, games, imagination, memories, poem, pranks
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Map of the world
We live on a spinning globe, and sometimes it seems as if our own private world in spinning too, but out of control … though it’s never quite like that … MAP OF THE WORLD time spins on its axis … Continue reading
One Afternoon
Some memories bring such a rush of delight, and this is one, added to by time and the joy of the occasion … ONE AFTERNOON the summer of mother’s yellow hat flies into memory on the width of the wind … Continue reading
Lucerne Street Notebook
I’ve been remembering the village I grew up in on the North Downs of Kent, walking up the road, re-visiting each house that I pass. I’ve used the old spelling of the village, which changed while I was in my … Continue reading
Old Photograph
Happy New Year to you all. It’s a time of looking forward but also of looking back; the year has rolled over and stored memories come back to haunt me … OLD PHOTOGRAPH the past opens at this tiny universe … Continue reading
Return
Remembrance Day is coming up. I’m sure anyone whose relations, whether close or distant, died in a World War has memories and questions as I do about my father… RETURN would the wind bring back the father who strides the … Continue reading
Posted in memory, poem, Remembrance Day
Tagged birds, children, memories, poem, relationships, war
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Where Unicorns
For the Anglo-Saxons, October was known as Winterfylleth, because at this full moon (fylleth) winter was supposed to begin. October’s birthstones are the tourmaline and the opal, its birth flower the calendula. The first Thursday of the month is National … Continue reading
Posted in adventure, fall, imagination, poem
Tagged ghosts, imagination, journey, memories, poem, season, travel
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Back In Time
Our local museum is a place of wonders, all kinds of antiques, photos, jewellery, costumes, well organized and attractive. Well worth a visit … BACK IN TIME for a modest fee you can wander into our local museum hold an … Continue reading
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